1717 in piracy

1717 in piracy

"See also": 1716 in piracy, other events in 1717, 1718 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy.----

Events

Caribbean Sea

*January - HMS "Scarborough" bombards and destroys several pirate vessels careening on St. Croix, stranding the pirate crew.
*Late February - Black Sam Bellamy in the "Sultana" takes the "Whydah Gally" near Jamaica and keeps it for his own use.
*November 28 - Benjamin Hornigold captures the French slave ship "La Concorde" near Martinique.
*December - Hornigold gives "La Concorde" to his first mate, Edward Teach, who renames the ship "Queen Anne's Revenge".

North America

*Spring - Edward Teach and Benjamin Hornigold take two sloops to Virginia, robbing three vessels en route, then return to Nassau, Bahamas.
*April - Bellamy seizes a merchant vessel off South Carolina.
*April 27 - The "Whydah Gally" founders in a storm off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Bellamy and all but nine of his men are drowned.
*July - Stede Bonnet's pirates in the "Revenge" plunder the "Anne, Turbet, Endeavour," and "Young" off the coast of Virginia, burning the "Turbet".
*August - Bonnet raids two vessels off South Carolina, firing one.
*October - Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet raid shipping in the mouth of Delaware Bay.

Births

Deaths

* April 27 - Black Sam Bellamy, pirate captain (born February 23, 1689).


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